2021 will still be too early as nations are decimated. Remember athletes need months of training and by spring they'll still be either only just receiving a vaccine if one is made then or more likely still in lockdown conditions. Thus not enough time. If they ever hold games again it'll be 2022 or IOC will be sued for the insurance money to cancel it as it overlaps with Winter. Although you could have Summer and Winter games in a year but not practical.

Also can you guess the city of the Winter 2022 games? A city to rally around?

This is just a way to yell at China without calling out Xi directly. Frankly we need to have personal protective equipment made in our own nations and we need to move away from China. This is a good step. China has been unleashing its trolls and sycophants but it will not work

I know it's the Japanese government, so expecting them to use technology is a stretch, but this should be all online applications with direct debit. Enforces social distancing, can be approved without staff and would be much faster.

Can confirm, Canada is on its second month of relief payments. Register online, then $2000 per person if they made less than $1000 a month. Program to last until October so far. Less for students and not everyone gets it, but it is paid quickly through debit directly to accounts.

small businesses are the epitome of productive. They fill a void left by large corporations. Then they get larger if successful or the aim of the company. Then new competitions emerge and the cycle repeats. It's called the market.

UBI would be a complete boom to the world with new business creation and jobs from that

self checkout is common place. One cashier per 9 self checkout. They're not going 100% away but pretty close.

Also think banks. In the 90's there were still human tellers, about 15 of them and a long lineup. Today there are maybe 3 tellers and a bank of ATMs.

Automation runs rampant and undermines people's ability to work. Tax the corporations, add a VAT, add a UBI, and then automation pays for you. You are then no longer in competition with change but can pursue other goals because you can.

Universal means everyone gets it without means testing. Otherwise it's just a guaranteed basic income with social engineering rules and bureaucracy to follow because you don't trust people.

Universal means not worrying about that because it stays within the economy. People under the boot of the economy can leave it to pursue their own abilities. Addiction, abuse, mental reasons to abandon the economy because you don't feel like you have a future go way down.

Every experiment and study shows this time and time again. Addition abuse goes down, mental health goes up, education goes up. Will there be those that stay down, sure but it's about 10%. Those addicts would have needed help anyway. It will then be easier to help them rather than huge swaths of the population that just needed an opportunity.

Jobs people don't want to do go down. If 10% want to check out that's still better than a 30-40%+ churn rate in a job. Companies that promote and continue inhuman activities go under. The real market is then revealed and that defines the value not a company. Market forces take off from a new ceiling based on value.

It heals people and helps the economy work for people. We pursue or make the jobs we want, not have to take. Else the wages for those go up. That's fair.

Higher taxes in a VAT plus income taxes means rich pay for it, but they also don't have to walk over homeless or worry about people trying to kill them. Win win

YES - When Andrew Yang ran for president I learned a lot about it and by making it universal without means testing gets the little fingers of social control out of the way so that people can grow without being burdened. I plan on reading The War on Normal People soon. His standpoint was about automation but the pandemic embrace of it for immediate solution to help people all around the world shows that if you want an economy at all, then #UBI isn't just a good idea, it'll be required.

What also kills hydrogen is Dr Goodenough and his lithium battery inventions. He has since invented the successor to that as well the solid state battery. Storage is feasible today with lithium ion but that is dependent on available lithium. Tesla home systems are currently in use. That will only get better as Goodenough inventions are developed, and use fewer exotic materials. Lithium battery already killed hydrogen, the new fast charging ability of his new invention will bury it further

you don't need to make it as it's not safe. Nothing you have runs on hydrogen. Electricity is the mediator of usage and our systems can use that now. No changes need occur to any building or system across the country.

Made hydrogen once and the energy losses were very substantial. It was far far better to keep the electricity rather than dealing with the conversion losses. It's doesn't scale to the home you need large plants or large transportation for it to work out. Homes though do scale with renewables. It's possible to be net zero or even net negative. Excess can be put back into the electrical grid as well.

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is!

Don't need to waste water. Sunshine and wind. Then there are the thermals, heliothermal, geothermal, hydrothermal. You don't use up anything. You take away land, there is still land there. You cannot lose it.

We go from a mindset of scarcity using things up, to a mindset of abundance using various potential differences without depleting

Look at the players. Limited large companies, same old distribution systems and partners, gas stations, you have to go out. Same paradigm of systems, limited players controlling the market. Safety is questionable. They set the price.

Look at the disruptors. Massive home solar, powering local grids, grid connected vehicles, safety from others. New paradigm of players opening the market without needing to regard for the resource. Resource price is zero, only cost is collection and distribution. Safety is never an issue so not a cost either. Price is set locally.

When you no longer own the land or resource then the paradigm shifts. When the resource is free then cost is only in collection. Everyone is then just a distributor as costs drop. They never have to research and develop something they don't need. Making them winners.

All the disruptors ruin the business models of the inefficient subsidy based corporations. Countries put in thousands of recharging stations. When they finally drop the oil/gas subsidies fall oil/gas companies will never be economic ever again.

Countries are going to want to keep that clean air they see today. Cuts pollution hospitalization and saves money. Makes nations more resilient and not dependent on someone else setting the price.

Fossil gas is just another way to stay dependent on the same players. We leave hydrogen we really go green and the economic facade finally drops in favour of local economies.

hydrogen is usually green washing for the fossil gas industry. Regardless of how it's made though it's a universal solvent, meaning it corrodes the containers that contain it, and you were better off with the electricity directly.